Authorities said a dispatcher received a call from a concerned citizen at 8:27 p.m. The citizen reported seeing “red fire balls in the sky” traveling in a south-west direction from the area of Daisetta in East Liberty County.

Two deputies responded to the call at 8:31p.m. and said they observed four orange-colored lights traveling in the reported direction at an estimated altitude of 3000 feet.

There were at least 10 to 12 other citizens on the scene that were observing the same sightings, deputies said.